How Did Wundt Contribute To Psychology

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The Founding of Psychology was largely influenced by the growing academic experiences in German universities. William Wundt contributed to the scientific approach of human nature by studying the human conscious through scientific experimentation of adaptive methods and individual experiences. Wundt created the first experimental laboratory of its kind, and he created the Philosophical Studies Journal to publish his laboratories’ work. Wundt’s applied science to philosophy to study mental processes. The new approach failed to gain popularity in America, because Wundt’s journals were difficult to translate. E.B. Boring shared Wundt’s work, but he only shared the parts that concerned Boring’s research, thus most of the laboratory’s work was overlooked. A new approach, Structuralism, focused on the component parts of consciousness through a specific form of introspection.
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Kant emphasized how cognition and the priori perceptual influenced experiences, and Planck demonstrated how the force fields in entirety determined the relationships of the component parts. Carl Stumf directly influenced the Gestalt Approach by urging the primacy of direct experience over reductionism. The main goal of Gestalt Psychology was to examine the entirety of psychological phenomena and emphasized the individual experience. Max Wertheimer developed many basic principles to determine how perceptions were organized by their overall functions rather than component parts. Kurt Koffka introduced the Gestalt movement to America and differentiated between reality as it is and our perception of reality. Gestalt Psychology failed to thrive as two of the three prominent Gestalts’ died young, rendering them unable to further spread the approach. Gestalt